Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “EGELHAAF”

CHIEF CRISES IN THE INTERNATIONAL POLICYOF THE GREAT POWERS AFTER 1870-71

N.B. Secret treaty between Russia and Austria, January 15, 1877, for “partition” of Turkey....

January 10, 1891: British ultimatum to Portugal: Africa plundered (“partitioned”).

1889: Seizure of Samoa islands (jointly by Britain, Germany and the U.S.A.).

1898: Spanish-American war. (Cuba and Philippines plundered.)

1898: Britain and Germany negotiate an alliance against Russia (could not agree!)

October 1898: Anglo-German treaty: Britain and Germany divide Portugal’s colonies between them (“in the event of” her financial bankruptcy)....

1899: “Friction” between Germany, Britain and the U.S.A. over Samoa. Threats of war. Conflict. Treaty “partitioning” the islands: November 14, 1899.

1900: All the powers join to strangle China: Germany + Russia + U.S.A. + Japan + Britain + France.

1903: Debt payments are extorted from Venezuela (by bombardment): Germany + Britain + Italy.

1904: Anglo-French treaty (April 8): Britain and France divide Africa (preparing for war against Germany).

1907: Anglo-Russian treaty (August 31): Britain and Russia divide Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet (preparing for war against Germany).

1908: U.S.-Japanese treaty (November 28) guaranteeing their Pacific “possessions”.

July 1910: Russo-Japanese treaty: Korea “exchanged” for Mongolia!

1911: Russo-German treaty (August 19): A kind of “double insurance” (Baghdad for Persia).

1911: Anglo-Japanese Treaty (Britain to be neutral in a war between Japan and the U.S.A.)... (see Franke in the symposiumGermany and the World War).

September 17, 1914: “Treaty” between Russia and “independent” Mongolia. (Mongolia plundered.)